![]() ![]() The review builds the foundation for a critical discussion of each line of inquiry by focusing on theoretical tensions and themes within each scholarly conversation, ending with a discussion of how these conversations inform futures research. This article offers a systematic multidisciplinary review of the existing literature (361 articles and 73 books) and identifies five scholarly conversations: past collapses, general explanations of collapse, alternatives to collapse, fictional collapses, and future climate change and societal collapse. What the authors call their manual for our times is part of the ongoing effort to re-evaluate globalization-think in the wake of the 2008 financial. The purpose of this article is thus to systematize the extant research on societal collapse and suggest future research directions. For them, collapse is an array of processes developing at different tempos, with effects that may vary by geography, and interacting in ways that defy generalization, much less prediction. ![]() While this has led to extensive research on societal collapse, there is a lack of consolidation and synthesis of the research. Because of concerns that ongoing climate change could lead to a possible collapse of human civilization, the topic of societal (civilization) collapse has emerged as especially relevant, not least for the futures-oriented studies. ![]()
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